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Posted on July 25, 2016

Investigating Inflammation at Beth Israel

This summer, several student-faculty teams are tackling research projects in the arts and sciences—from asthma to accounting audits, bilingualism and women in leadership.

Posted on July 21, 2016

New Voice in the Local Music Scene

The day Rachel Baldwin ’17 was scheduled to sing and play guitar before 300 people as the opening act for singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor, she woke up with no voice.

Posted on July 12, 2016

When Microloans Make Maximum Impact

When Peter Vance ’17 spent four months with friends in Madagascar, he was struck by the fact that most local people scraped by through subsistence farming. In response he started Miray Community Development, a microloan organization for small business owners.

Posted on June 22, 2016

An Un-Belize-able Experience

Abby Mantey ’18, a biology major (pre-medical track) and international student from Ghana, writes about her experience on the “Health and Healthcare in the Developing World” seminar in Belize this summer.

Posted on June 17, 2016

From Textbooks to Reality: Reflections from Gordon’s Inaugural Cadaver Lab Cohort

Each lab period this spring, an intrepid group of students left their books and backpacks at the door of Gordon's new Anatomy and Physiology Lab, swapped their pencils for scalpels, donned lab coats and scrubs, and breathed in the scent of embalming fluid.

Posted on April 28, 2016

Katie Gilbert ’16 Receives Fulbright Award to Study Syriac in India

Katie Gilbert ’16 has received a Student Fulbright grant to study at the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute in India, where she will take courses in Syriac language and literature from top Syriac scholars.

Posted on April 26, 2016

Jack Hanke ’16 Stars in Netflix Documentary, Asperger’s Are Us

Jack Hanke ’16 (pictured left above) accomplished something most people normally don’t. He got to be in a movie that premiered at one of the most famous culture festivals, South by Southwest (SXSW), and is now headed for Netflix.

Posted on April 1, 2016

Real Presence in Orvieto

“My real presence was found in an ancient Italian town that was sculpted right from the mountain that it sits upon, and it is called Orvieto,” writes Theresa Sterling ’16.

Posted on February 17, 2016

Horns and Feathers: The Experience of Undergraduate Research

Posted on February 15, 2016

Gravitational Waves and a Gordon Student

"Physics major Rebecca Li ’17 played a part in this awesome verification of Einstein's theory of general relativity, which predicted the existence of these waves 100 years ago," writes Dr. David Lee, chair of Gordon's Physics Department.

Posted on January 12, 2016

Meet the College Connectors

Matching rugby shirts by day, suit jackets by night. These are the connectors—the faces of Gordon College. Meet the Student Ambassadors, a group of 29 Gordon students selected to represent the College

Posted on December 22, 2015